Software Delivery Contracts in Scotland

Software Delivery
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Software Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 99 130
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +2
Contract jobs citing Software Delivery 24 30 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.48% 1.35% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.53% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 24
10th Percentile - £414 £379
25th Percentile £400 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +6.89% +3.94%
75th Percentile £541 £527 £526
90th Percentile £583 £584 £594
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -1.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Software Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Software Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Software Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Software Delivery in Scotland

Software Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Software Delivery in Scotland

Software Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Delivery in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Delivery in Scotland

Software Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Delivery in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Software Delivery in Scotland

Software Delivery
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Delivery within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +7 15 £450 - 10
Glasgow +7 7 £550 -6.38% 6
Lanarkshire - 1 £525 -
Software Delivery
UK

Software Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Confluence
1 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
1 7 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (25.00%) PaaS
2 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (25.00%) SaaS
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 4 (16.67%) Serverless
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 3 (12.50%) IaaS
4 3 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 3 (12.50%) Route 53
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (12.50%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (25.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.83%) Git
3 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (12.50%) Cypress.io
3 3 (12.50%) Postman
3 3 (12.50%) Selenium
3 3 (12.50%) Subversion
3 3 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 3 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) GoCD
General
1 12 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Finance
3 8 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (20.83%) Banking
4 5 (20.83%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Games
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) ETL Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Re-Platforming Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Developer
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Scrum Master
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) AWS CDK
2 3 (12.50%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.33%) React
3 2 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Client/Server
1 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Agile
2 14 (58.33%) DevOps
3 11 (45.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
6 6 (25.00%) Kanban
6 6 (25.00%) Migration
6 6 (25.00%) Project Management
6 6 (25.00%) Scrum
7 5 (20.83%) Risk Management
7 5 (20.83%) SDLC
8 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 4 (16.67%) Waterfall
9 3 (12.50%) ATDD
9 3 (12.50%) BDD
9 3 (12.50%) Change Control
9 3 (12.50%) Feature Driven Development
9 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (12.50%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.83%) Python
3 4 (16.67%) Bash
3 4 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) C++
4 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) VBA
4 3 (12.50%) VBScript
5 2 (8.33%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) ISEB
1 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 3 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Imperva
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.17%) Fiserv
3 1 (4.17%) Pega
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow